START a new launcher is scheduled for December Sergei Shoigu has once again visited the military Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region. Mainly interested in the preparation of the Minister of Defense launch complex for the first launch of a new launch vehicle heavy class Angara-A5. Commander of the Aerospace Defense Alexander Golovko reported that all works are on schedule. This means that the test flight of the heavy Angara, as planned, to be held in late December. Preparations for the launch of the new missile - the process is not only complicated, but also durable. Not accidentally, various units began delivering carrier in Plesetsk in the end of July. This required two trains. At the launch site the military with civilian specialists all services have put together and are now engaged in a comprehensive ground tests Angara. Interesting detail: the heavy rocket began to prepare for the start almost immediately after the launch of its light version. Recall that the Angara -1.2PP rose from the northern cosmodrome on July 9, in 21 minutes on a ballistic trajectory flew across the country and took a half ton satellite layout on Kamchatka Kura testing ground. Although its start due to technical reasons initially postponed the first test light carrier acknowledged success. Today Sergei Shoigu even awarded the starting payment Sheds -1.2PP medals for military valor. - Thanks to the selfless work of workers the space industry for the first time in Russian history, there was a universal spacecraft capable of outputting into orbit a payload of different purposes, - said the Minister of Defence. He added that experts Plesetsk able to quickly learn the finest techniques and taught a new carrier rocket to fly, once again confirming the reliability of the military component of national astronautics. About the universality of Angara Shoigu did not exaggerate. The new complex includes a fully domestic launch of four types - from a light vehicle with a load capacity of 1.7 - 3.7 tons to severe variant with a payload of 28.5 tonnes. Moreover, unlike other missiles Angar is not on heptyl poisonous, and environmentally friendly fuels - kerosene and liquid oxygen. Another obvious advantage of this technique lies in its dual purpose. Not by chance at the February meeting on the development of the space industry Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that in the coming decades is Angara will be the main launch vehicle that will replace the Proton-M, Roar and Soyuz-2. And it will start not only from Plesetsk, but now under construction cosmodrome East. Refuse to run Rokot converted under peaceful purposes of strategic missile RS-18 (in the West it is called Stiletto), in favor of Angara military ready in a couple of years. Today General Golovko Shoigu reported that the old media is planned to use three times in the next year and one in - 2016. Then it should take place light rocket Soyuz-2.1c and Angara. This must be done, including in the framework of import substitution. The fact that Roars is used booster Breeze-KM, a control system which is manufactured in Kharkov.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:35:45 +0000
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